Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse
Huo Wei had all the memories of the original host, and she had seen so many ancient clothes and makeup in the previous world, so she was quite familiar with these. She had been in a hurry to shoot for so many years and had learned good makeup skills from the top international dressers. It was natural for her to come to this ancient time with ease.
Coincidentally, the lie of the temple Master was exposed. When Huo Wei was the most popular, she ran into two young ladies she knew outside. After a few words, they despised her dress. Then, Huo Wei personally helped them match clothes and makeup, dressing them up beautifully.
In this way, they became live brands, and soon the news spread. Curious or beautiful ladies came to find Huo Wei to dress up.
Since she didn’t have the money to open a shop, she would entertain them at her own house, and then accompany them to buy clothes and jewelry. After earning their appearance fees, they also took kickbacks from the clothing shop to make money on both sides.
Everyone loved beauty, not to mention that Huo Wei was so fresh. Someone had dressed herself up at home and came to see her because she thought she had bad taste; Some people were beautiful, but they were not favored. They also came to find Huo Wei to change a new hairstyle, hoping to make their husband happy.
All in all, there were a lot of people coming to her. She had so much time every day that she had no time to care about it at all. Many ladies had already been waiting in line to come to her place one by one to change their hairstyles.
In this way, all the ladies who had been dressed up by Huo Wei were fine, which further proved that she was not a jinx. Who was unlucky? It was a lie! The Li family might have done a lot of bad things to make them so unlucky? Before Huo Wei went back, they almost had nothing to eat, right?
The Li family was under the greatest pressure because they saw a lot of villagers every day in the village. The villagers would not restrain themselves and dare to laugh at their face to face. The Lis was furious. It suddenly occurred to her that what Huo Wei had said the other day that the Lis had become like this. It was all caused by Lu Jingyun and the Lus!
Damn it! Yu Jingyun should blame the wrong servant and the Lis for what they did. They had always thought that she was the adopted child. She had been brought up by them for such a long time without any illness or pain. They had already been very worthy of her.
They didn’t expect that she would end up raising an ungrateful girl. They didn’t even ask her to pay back, but she vented her anger on them. How cruel she was!
The Lis totally forgot that they had accepted the money from the Lus. They only remembered that Lu Jingyun had made them desperate and put all their hatred on her.
However, Lu Jingyun was going to marry the Marquis, so they didn’t dare to do anything. They had to suppress their hatred and behave themselves with their tails between their legs.
On the other hand, there were three women in Huo Wei’s mansion. One of them was an old woman and the other two were young girls. They had made a lot of money. To pay off his gambling debts, Mr.Li took the risk to climb over the wall in the middle of the night to steal the banknotes from Huo Wei!
The Huo Wei’s mansion was guarded by Lou Ye’s Secret guards. In addition, Huo Wei had also placed a mouse clip at the wall and kept a wolf dog. As soon as Mr. Li jumped down, he let out a scream, crossed his legs, and fell to the ground. Then the wolf-dog screamed crazily.
With the light on, Huo Wei held Mrs.Huo up and comforted, “Godmother, don’t be afraid. I’ve prepared for it. No one can break-in.”
“Okay.”Mrs.Huo held a knife in her hand, which was a habit she had developed when she was young. Putting the knife beside the pillow, she had also experienced such things. She had lived till now by risking her life.
Huo Wei asked Shaoyao to protect her godmother. She opened a window and lit up the oil lamp on the windowsill, but she didn’t go out at all.
“It’s so dark that I can’t see anything clearly. I can only see a man being caught.” Huo Wei said calmly. She felt more relieved when she found that the man didn’t have a partner.
The lights of the neighbors were on. Leaning against the wall, they asked, “What happened? What’s wrong? A Thief? “
“Well, could you please help me to call the police? If I hadn’t put the mouse clip, my house would have suffered.”Huo Wei clapped her hands and called the wolf-dog to stop barking.
“Don’t call the police. I’m not a thief. I’m your father.”Mr.Li shouted in a hurry.
“I don’t know who my father is.”Huo Wei said in a cold voice, “No matter who it is, climbing over the wall late at night must be ill-intentioned. Call the police!”
“No, no…” Mr. Li struggled and shouted, but no one listened to him.
Now that Huo Wei was capable, she was not a jinx. All the neighbors were willing to be close to her. Someone immediately took a rope to tie him up and was about to report to the police. It was not until her father was tied up and pressed to the ground that Huo Wei helped Mrs.Huo out and thanked her neighbors.
“Please don’t call the police. I beg you. I just want to see you. I know you don’t want to see me, so I… “
“Cut the crap. We are all idiots. Do you believe a lie like you? Are you here to steal money? “Mrs. Huo kicked him and said angrily, “You’ve never raised my Huo Wei. How dare you come to my house? How dare you steal? Go to jail! “
“I’m sorry. I won’t do that again. Please let me go. I swear I won’t come again. I won’t do that again. “
Crouching in front of him, Huo Wei stared at him and said seriously, “I can let you go. Tell me, who are my parents?”
Harry was stunned and kept shaking his head. “I don’t know. I really found you in the mountain behind the Li village. I don’t know.”
Seeing that he was avoiding eye contact with her, Huo Wei squinted and asked, “When you found me, what clues were there around? Where is my baby? Do I have a token with me? I just want to find my parents. If you don’t know anything, then I’m useless. I can only send you to the officials. “
“No, no, No. I said you were in an ordinary basket and had already thrown it away. You only have a piece of cotton cloth with you. It’s not special. Think about it. That kind of remote place is not from the Li village. You must have been thrown there on purpose when you were just born. How can you leave any clue? “
Mr. Li said anxiously, “You are living such a good life now. Why do you still look for your parents? You couldn’t find anything after such a long time. Please let me go. I’m telling the truth. Don’t send me to see the officials. My wife is still in bed waiting for me to take care of her, and my son is still young… “
This time, Huo Wei saw his dodging expression more clearly. She was sure that he didn’t tell the truth, so she stood up and said to a young man with a snort, “Please help me to go there and report to an official. Since he was able to break into my house today and another day, he had to teach him a lesson to remember. Thank you for your hard work today. I’ll give you a banquet tomorrow to thank you. “
“Hey, it’s just a piece of cake for the neighbors? You’re welcome! ” The woman next door waved her hand with a smile and urged her son to report to the police as soon as possible.
Seeing that Huo Wei wouldn’t let him go, Mr. Li was so angry that he cursed, “You bastard! You don’t even have a father or a mother. You don’t even want the Lus who has raised you for sixteen years. You deserve to have a single woman as your mother. You will die a bad death!”
“What did you say? I told you! Say it again? “Shaoyao grabbed the broom and beat him. The broom was not ruthless, but it still hurt when it fell on his head and face. Mr. Li was so painful that he screamed and could not say anything more.
There was nothing to investigate about her father. He just broke into the house and wanted to steal things. Since he didn’t steal anything, he was sentenced to jail for at most a month. But Huo Wei told the housekeeper that she suspected that Mr. Li planned to kill her because of money. Otherwise, why didn’t she tell the truth? Why did he go to her home? At that time, her father had arrested her and wanted to bury her in the pond. Who knew if her father had turned her into the Huo family to kill her?
She asked the police to investigate the place where her father found her. There must be some clues.
Since there was no evidence and the only evidence was the evasion of Mr. Li, the governor didn’t take it seriously and only sent two officers to take charge of this matter. It had been sixteen years. Even if there was really a case, there was probably no trace.
That was what Huo Wei thought, but she still needed to figure it out. Her father came to steal this time, which gave her a chance to investigate what had happened in the past with the excuse of suspecting that her father had entered the house and killed her.
Coincidentally, these two officers were the two who had helped Huo Wei leave the Li village. They went to the Li village with Huo Wei and Shaoyao. The first step was to get the baby or something left in the Li family.
She went to ask Mrs.Li first. When she caught her father, he was worried that there might be something wrong with his story. If Mr.Li and Mrs.Li hadn’t made up a confession, there would be a loophole. Sure enough, sixteen years had passed, and the memories at that time were not fresh. The two of them had a completely different view.
Mrs.Li told her that her father had gone to throw away the child, and then he came back soon with Huo Wei in his arms. The child had been thrown into the wilderness naked, and her father had wrapped it up with his own clothes, so she had nothing.
Mrs.Li was smart enough to think that it was all right to say so. She didn’t expect that her husband would mention basket and cotton cloth.
Their mistake immediately aroused the suspicion of the officials. They paid much attention to this matter and began to search the Lis.
Mrs.Li was so scared that her legs went limp. Ordinary people, as villagers, had never dealt with government officials. She begged, “We didn’t hurt your parents. Please don’t wrong us. Please.”
Pretending to be indifferent, Huo Wei said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, “If I can’t find out the truth, in the end, I’ll take it as you killed my parents and take revenge on them. I can do whatever Lu Jingyun can do to you. If you don’t believe me, let’s have a try. “
Huo Wei’s voice was cold. She used to be a murderer. Hannah was frightened and her face turned pale!
Mrs.Li looked at the roof of the stove unconsciously and then looked away as if nothing had happened. After a while, she looked over there three times.
Huo Wei walked to the stove and looked around, but saw nothing. As soon as Mrs.Li breathed a sigh of relief, she saw a swallow flying in. It hit its head against the corner of the wall and seemed to pass out. Then it flew away again.
It didn’t matter whether it flew or not. What mattered was that the impact just knocked down a little soil from the corner of the wall, revealing the cloth inside!
Huo Wei immediately called an officer to fetch it. There was indeed an old swaddle, which was covered with dust. The Officer immediately caught Mrs.Li. If there was no secret in her heart, why did she say no baby? And the two of them even told different lies to hide this matter.
The two officers went to the place where Mr.Li said he had found the child, and Mr.Li naturally told a lie. Or after sixteen years, there was no trace, and the two of them got nothing. They just took Mrs.Li back and warned local police that if anyone knew that they didn’t report what had happened in the past, he would be more guilty. But if someone reported it, he could get a reward.
The whole Li village was in an uproar. What was the secret behind picking up a child? They didn’t know at all! Everyone began to recall what they had been doing and whether they had found anything unusual. Huo Wei had said that she would offer ten taels of silver as the reward. If there were really useful clues, the ten taels of silver would belong to the informer.
Ten taels of silver was an acre of good land for a peasant! They might not have saved so much in the past few years. Of course, they were moved. Even the members of the police began to recall what happened in the past in private.
It was not easy to say that there were many people and great strength. They could not only recall but also go to the back mountain to look for any clues.
One of them remembered that when he went to the mountain behind him, he fell down because the soil there was different from the other places. He also scolded that who was free to dig there?
When he remembered, he immediately went to the mountain behind with his family to look for it. In the past sixteen years, many things had changed, such as trees and grass. They had searched for three days but still couldn’t find them. Unexpectedly, it just rained heavily and the ground was flushed. When they searched again after the rain, they found a piece of white bone!
The family was frightened and immediately went to find the police.
Police were taking people to dig out the bones buried in the soil, and everyone was frightened. The jade pendant beside the skeleton was broken into several pieces and was incomplete. Another jade hairpin was broken into two pieces. The rest was gone.
But even if the villagers hadn’t seen anything good, they knew that this jade pendant was definitely the best one. The jade hairpin’s material was a little poor, and it was not something that an ordinary family could have.
Sixteen years ago, someone was digging here, and Huo Wei was also picked up at that time. At the same time, Mr.Li became diligent and began to be a peddler. All didn’t know how he made money. Anyway, he had made a lot. The Li family had built a house and bought a field. If they took the silver from here, wouldn’t it just make sense?
The villagers only felt their hair stand. Was it because Mr.Li killed people for money?
They had been with Mr.Li for so many years, but they didn’t expect him to be a murderer! Fortunately, they were not killed by him!
The local police were also responsible for the accident in the village. He looked terrible, but he didn’t dare to delay and went to the capital to report the case. There were so many people in the village who had seen it. But now, they couldn’t hide the fact that Huo Wei and the police were still investigating the clue.
The government soon sent someone to bring the skeleton back and asked the coroner to examine it. The broken jewelry was also sealed as evidence.
Huo Wei didn’t expect a skeleton to be buried in the mountain behind the Li village. When she heard the news, her face became serious. She would rather her parents abandoned her than be killed by her father. This was too tragic.
She sat in a room in the mansion, waiting for the result. But after a while, the guards at the door seemed to have been ordered to leave quietly. Lou Ye walked into the room and stood in front of Huo Wei.
“Don’t think too much. I’ve told the chief to interrogate her sternly. We’ll know the truth soon.”
Although they weren’t her family, she was in a bad mood. She lowered her head and said, “If there is any grievance, wash it.”
“Sure, I promise.”Lou Ye said in a low but powerful voice. He squatted down slowly, looked into her eyes, and said seriously, “The past will be clear. From now on, I’ll be by your side, and I won’t let you suffer anymore.”
Looking at him for a while, Huo Wei smiled. “I know. I trust you.”
With the progress of the case and Lou Ye’s instructions, the government investigation was fast.
The skeleton had indeed died for sixteen or seventeen years. According to the estimation of her bone age, the woman should be over sixty years old now. That was to say, this woman was nearly fifty years old at that time, and she had never had a child. And Huo Wei was not her child.
The woman broke her leg before she died, and her ribs and backbone had been hit hard. She should have been seriously injured and died of excessive blood loss.
Seeing that the government dug out the bones and found so much information, Mr. Li explained hurriedly. He didn’t kill anyone. He could only bury a corpse and take the woman’s silver and valuable items.
After the interrogation, Mr. Li spoke out everything.
When he went to the back hill to throw the dead baby, it happened to rain that day. The road was slippery. He cursed bad luck while walking. He just wanted to finish his work as soon as possible and go back, but he stumbled while walking!
When he looked up, he saw a woman with her eyes wide open. She screamed in horror and was about to run away. At that time, he saw the lotus bag beside the woman.
At that time, he was so obsessed that he kicked the woman. Seeing that she was dead, he plucked up the lotus bag and found gold and silver in it. Those were not much for the rich, but a windfall for him.
He immediately searched the woman’s body, but unfortunately, except for the broken jade pendant and hairpin, there was nothing else.
Afraid of being discovered, Mr. Li hurried back home to dig a hole with his farm tools and buried her. Then he took the baby crying in the basket next to him back home. He thought that since he had taken the dead money, he could raise the child. It was ominous for the family to have a miscarriage, so he decided to hide it.
For this reason, he especially gave the midwife 2 tales silver as hush money. Later, the midwife died of illness, and no one knew about it except him and his wife. Last time, he couldn’t help but tell the truth because he was scared by the news of jinx. It never occurred to him that what happened sixteen years ago was also involved.
He repeatedly promised that he didn’t kill anyone. When he arrived there, the woman had died and the child had no strength to cry. On the second day, the child was sick. His mother forced his wife to take the child to the temple to pray.
Mrs.Li’s confession was comparable to his. Mrs.Li was very careful and kept the purse. She thought that maybe a rich family would come to find her daughter in the future. So when the Lus came to recognize Lu Jingyun and said that Huo Wei was also raised in the Lus, she agreed without hesitation. She thought what happened in the past was the secret of the Lu family’s backyard, and that it was just an excuse. She didn’t dare to ask more, nor did she mention these conjectures to her father.
According to Mrs.Li’s statement, the officer took out the lotus bag from the corner of Mrs.Li’s quilt. The lotus bag was well made, but it was difficult to tell what the cloth was for a while and it needed some time to investigate who was in touch with it.
The swaddling baby was really very ordinary as if one had casually taken a small quilt from a peasant child outside. It was not tied up, and there was no clue to investigate.
Although she knew the truth, she still couldn’t relax, because Lis wasn’t the murderer. The murderer was someone else. It seemed that it was not as simple as abandon, but someone didn’t want her to live.
Lou Ye grew up at the frontier and didn’t know much about the history of the capital city. He could only send someone to investigate. He wanted to see if there was something wrong with the children of some rich family sixteen years ago.
It was not easy to investigate what had happened so long ago, so she had to put it aside for the time being and wait for the follow-up.
Lu Jingyun had been keeping an eye on Huo Wei, and she was also shocked.
What’s the meaning of this? Is there any secret about her birth? How is that possible?
She had always looked down upon Huo Wei because she was the daughter of a peasant in the Li village. As the eldest daughter of the Lus, she was much noble than Huo Wei.
But now, she suddenly said that Huo Wei had nothing to do with the Lis, and even her mother was very rich. Then who on earth was she? Would she find her family and blend in again? If they met, would they be compared for the rest of their lives, just like what they had been in their previous lives? If Huo Wei married another rich man, would she be pressed by her and never be able to escape from this nightmare?
But Lu Jingyun could do nothing about it. The feeling of losing control came again. She thought she had planned everything step by step after her rebirth. However, now everything was out of the original track, and only the marriage of the Marqui remained the same, but there was a sense of loss that could not be grasped.
Lu Jingyun was a little scared. Was this the same world as her previous life? Was she reborn into another world? Why is everything different?
She was thinking about this, but she didn’t know that others were also thinking about her. Although she was a daughter of the Lu family, she was brought up by her parents. How could her father do that kind of thing in the past? What kind of person could Lu Jingyun, who was raised up by Li’s father, be?
Marquise was especially annoyed. If she had known it earlier, she would not have agreed to change the marriage. What kind of trouble would it be? If she had insisted on her son’s engagement with Huo Wei, the Lu family wouldn’t have dared to remove her from the family tree. They would have treated her as the daughter of the Lu family and maintained their relationship.
It was all Lu Jingyun’s fault. She seduced her son secretly and gave him a handkerchief. She was so shameless that her son insisted on changing the marriage. Now Huo Wei was fine, but Lu Jingyun had almost lost her good reputation. How could she allow Lu Jingyun to marry her?
Marquise thought to herself, otherwise, if she added Lu Jingyun to the list that the Master had given out, she would be able to break off the engagement confidently.
But before she could take action, the government had got the Master’s confession list. There were at least fifty people in it. In the beginning, they were not very famous, but later they were confiscated of several hundred or several thousand taels of silver. The people on the list had also changed from ordinary people to high officials. Most of them were fighting in the backyard, involving the families of several officials, and some of them had already left capital or passed away.
The name list was not made public because it would damage the reputation of the noble families. But the emperor was angry and asked the eunuch master to read the name list in the court, scolding those officials for not being strict with their family and ordering them to deal with it on their own.
Lu Yuan was also reprimanded. His daughter was the only girl on the list who hadn’t get married, and the purpose of bribing the Master was to harm another girl!
The emperor called his name alone and said coldly, “She is so vicious at such a young age. Good for you!”
Lu Yuan was shocked. He immediately knelt on the ground, and explained in a cold sweat, “Your Majesty, as you can see, this little girl was born in the wrong place and has been raised on the farm. I didn’t find her until a few months ago. I really don’t know how she dared to do such a thing. I… “
“Enough! In other words, you don’t even know who is your child. How can you take the job if you can’t even see through a girl raised by a farmer? The guards, except his official uniform, were escorted back to the mansion. From now on, you will be discharged from your position and reflect on yourself. You are not allowed to go out for three months! ” The emperor was really angry, and Lu Yuan’s explanation happened to hit the muzzle.
Many people were curious about why Lu Yuan was taken back to his mansion like this. They all knew that Lu Jingyun had bribed the Master to make up a lie to expel Huo Wei and make her a jinx.
The first thing Lu Yuan did when he came back home was to rush into his room and slap her across the face. “Unfilial daughter! How dare you destroy the basic business of our Lus! “
Lu Jikngyun covered his face and stepped back in a hurry. “Dad, what are you doing? How could I do something bad to the Lu family? “
“How dare you say that? You bastard! How smart do you think you are to deceive your grandmother by bribing that Master to grant your life? She didn’t know that there was no secret wall in the world. If you did it, you would be found out sooner or later. Our Majesty was furious. He took off my position and asked me to stay in the mansion to reflect on myself. Are you satisfied? Are you satisfied? ” Lu Yuan’s eyes were red and he wanted to strangle this evil girl. How could he be so stupid to take her back? He should have known what would happen to a wild child raised outside!
Both Mrs.Feng and Mrs.Chen, who came in a hurry, felt dizzy when they heard what he said. Mrs.Feng grabbed Lu Yuan’s hand and asked incredulously, “Our majesty dismissed you? Really? Really? “
Lu Yuan nodded sadly, “Really! Our family——is dying! “
Mrs.Feng’s eyes went black and his body collapsed.Mrs.Chen immediately asked someone to carry Mrs.Feng to the bed and call for a doctor. After settling down Mrs.Feng, she threw herself on Lu Jingyun and beat her up. She cried, “You bastard! How dare you? How dare you? Don’t you eat less at home and wear less? Why do you have to do this? Shame on you! We Lu family want it! Give back your father’s official position! “
Lu Jingyun had imagined countless times how the truth would be exposed these days. She knew that the official would not make the list public. The so-called punishment was that his family would decide according to the situation. She had prepared the fake pregnancy herb. She planned to marry into the Marquis’ mansion with the help of pregnancy to avoid the disaster. Of course, she could say anything in the future.
But she never expected that the emperor would be angry. It was not the right time for Lu Yuan to defend himself and was dismissed directly. Without this official, the Lu family was no different from the ordinary rich families. Her family was destroyed, and her husband’s family might not want her. And this matter would definitely be known by everyone because of it. What should she do in the future?
For the first time after Lu Jingyun was reborn, she was at a loss. She suddenly regretted it. She shouldn’t have been against Huo Wei. She shouldn’t have been.
But it was too late. She had already cut off all relations with them.
Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse
Huo Wei had all the memories of the original host, and she had seen so many ancient clothes and makeup in the previous world, so she was quite familiar with these. She had been in a hurry to shoot for so many years and had learned good makeup skills from the top international dressers. It was natural for her to come to this ancient time with ease.
Coincidentally, the lie of the temple Master was exposed. When Huo Wei was the most popular, she ran into two young ladies she knew outside. After a few words, they despised her dress. Then, Huo Wei personally helped them match clothes and makeup, dressing them up beautifully.
In this way, they became live brands, and soon the news spread. Curious or beautiful ladies came to find Huo Wei to dress up.
Since she didn’t have the money to open a shop, she would entertain them at her own house, and then accompany them to buy clothes and jewelry. After earning their appearance fees, they also took kickbacks from the clothing shop to make money on both sides.
Everyone loved beauty, not to mention that Huo Wei was so fresh. Someone had dressed herself up at home and came to see her because she thought she had bad taste; Some people were beautiful, but they were not favored. They also came to find Huo Wei to change a new hairstyle, hoping to make their husband happy.
All in all, there were a lot of people coming to her. She had so much time every day that she had no time to care about it at all. Many ladies had already been waiting in line to come to her place one by one to change their hairstyles.
In this way, all the ladies who had been dressed up by Huo Wei were fine, which further proved that she was not a jinx. Who was unlucky? It was a lie! The Li family might have done a lot of bad things to make them so unlucky? Before Huo Wei went back, they almost had nothing to eat, right?
The Li family was under the greatest pressure because they saw a lot of villagers every day in the village. The villagers would not restrain themselves and dare to laugh at their face to face. The Lis was furious. It suddenly occurred to her that what Huo Wei had said the other day that the Lis had become like this. It was all caused by Lu Jingyun and the Lus!
Damn it! Yu Jingyun should blame the wrong servant and the Lis for what they did. They had always thought that she was the adopted child. She had been brought up by them for such a long time without any illness or pain. They had already been very worthy of her.
They didn’t expect that she would end up raising an ungrateful girl. They didn’t even ask her to pay back, but she vented her anger on them. How cruel she was!
The Lis totally forgot that they had accepted the money from the Lus. They only remembered that Lu Jingyun had made them desperate and put all their hatred on her.
However, Lu Jingyun was going to marry the Marquis, so they didn’t dare to do anything. They had to suppress their hatred and behave themselves with their tails between their legs.
On the other hand, there were three women in Huo Wei’s mansion. One of them was an old woman and the other two were young girls. They had made a lot of money. To pay off his gambling debts, Mr.Li took the risk to climb over the wall in the middle of the night to steal the banknotes from Huo Wei!
The Huo Wei’s mansion was guarded by Lou Ye’s Secret guards. In addition, Huo Wei had also placed a mouse clip at the wall and kept a wolf dog. As soon as Mr. Li jumped down, he let out a scream, crossed his legs, and fell to the ground. Then the wolf-dog screamed crazily.
With the light on, Huo Wei held Mrs.Huo up and comforted, “Godmother, don’t be afraid. I’ve prepared for it. No one can break-in.”
“Okay.”Mrs.Huo held a knife in her hand, which was a habit she had developed when she was young. Putting the knife beside the pillow, she had also experienced such things. She had lived till now by risking her life.
Huo Wei asked Shaoyao to protect her godmother. She opened a window and lit up the oil lamp on the windowsill, but she didn’t go out at all.
“It’s so dark that I can’t see anything clearly. I can only see a man being caught.” Huo Wei said calmly. She felt more relieved when she found that the man didn’t have a partner.
The lights of the neighbors were on. Leaning against the wall, they asked, “What happened? What’s wrong? A Thief? “
“Well, could you please help me to call the police? If I hadn’t put the mouse clip, my house would have suffered.”Huo Wei clapped her hands and called the wolf-dog to stop barking.
“Don’t call the police. I’m not a thief. I’m your father.”Mr.Li shouted in a hurry.
“I don’t know who my father is.”Huo Wei said in a cold voice, “No matter who it is, climbing over the wall late at night must be ill-intentioned. Call the police!”
“No, no…” Mr. Li struggled and shouted, but no one listened to him.
Now that Huo Wei was capable, she was not a jinx. All the neighbors were willing to be close to her. Someone immediately took a rope to tie him up and was about to report to the police. It was not until her father was tied up and pressed to the ground that Huo Wei helped Mrs.Huo out and thanked her neighbors.
“Please don’t call the police. I beg you. I just want to see you. I know you don’t want to see me, so I… “
“Cut the crap. We are all idiots. Do you believe a lie like you? Are you here to steal money? “Mrs. Huo kicked him and said angrily, “You’ve never raised my Huo Wei. How dare you come to my house? How dare you steal? Go to jail! “
“I’m sorry. I won’t do that again. Please let me go. I swear I won’t come again. I won’t do that again. “
Crouching in front of him, Huo Wei stared at him and said seriously, “I can let you go. Tell me, who are my parents?”
Harry was stunned and kept shaking his head. “I don’t know. I really found you in the mountain behind the Li village. I don’t know.”
Seeing that he was avoiding eye contact with her, Huo Wei squinted and asked, “When you found me, what clues were there around? Where is my baby? Do I have a token with me? I just want to find my parents. If you don’t know anything, then I’m useless. I can only send you to the officials. “
“No, no, No. I said you were in an ordinary basket and had already thrown it away. You only have a piece of cotton cloth with you. It’s not special. Think about it. That kind of remote place is not from the Li village. You must have been thrown there on purpose when you were just born. How can you leave any clue? “
Mr. Li said anxiously, “You are living such a good life now. Why do you still look for your parents? You couldn’t find anything after such a long time. Please let me go. I’m telling the truth. Don’t send me to see the officials. My wife is still in bed waiting for me to take care of her, and my son is still young… “
This time, Huo Wei saw his dodging expression more clearly. She was sure that he didn’t tell the truth, so she stood up and said to a young man with a snort, “Please help me to go there and report to an official. Since he was able to break into my house today and another day, he had to teach him a lesson to remember. Thank you for your hard work today. I’ll give you a banquet tomorrow to thank you. “
“Hey, it’s just a piece of cake for the neighbors? You’re welcome! ” The woman next door waved her hand with a smile and urged her son to report to the police as soon as possible.
Seeing that Huo Wei wouldn’t let him go, Mr. Li was so angry that he cursed, “You bastard! You don’t even have a father or a mother. You don’t even want the Lus who has raised you for sixteen years. You deserve to have a single woman as your mother. You will die a bad death!”
“What did you say? I told you! Say it again? “Shaoyao grabbed the broom and beat him. The broom was not ruthless, but it still hurt when it fell on his head and face. Mr. Li was so painful that he screamed and could not say anything more.
There was nothing to investigate about her father. He just broke into the house and wanted to steal things. Since he didn’t steal anything, he was sentenced to jail for at most a month. But Huo Wei told the housekeeper that she suspected that Mr. Li planned to kill her because of money. Otherwise, why didn’t she tell the truth? Why did he go to her home? At that time, her father had arrested her and wanted to bury her in the pond. Who knew if her father had turned her into the Huo family to kill her?
She asked the police to investigate the place where her father found her. There must be some clues.
Since there was no evidence and the only evidence was the evasion of Mr. Li, the governor didn’t take it seriously and only sent two officers to take charge of this matter. It had been sixteen years. Even if there was really a case, there was probably no trace.
That was what Huo Wei thought, but she still needed to figure it out. Her father came to steal this time, which gave her a chance to investigate what had happened in the past with the excuse of suspecting that her father had entered the house and killed her.
Coincidentally, these two officers were the two who had helped Huo Wei leave the Li village. They went to the Li village with Huo Wei and Shaoyao. The first step was to get the baby or something left in the Li family.
She went to ask Mrs.Li first. When she caught her father, he was worried that there might be something wrong with his story. If Mr.Li and Mrs.Li hadn’t made up a confession, there would be a loophole. Sure enough, sixteen years had passed, and the memories at that time were not fresh. The two of them had a completely different view.
Mrs.Li told her that her father had gone to throw away the child, and then he came back soon with Huo Wei in his arms. The child had been thrown into the wilderness naked, and her father had wrapped it up with his own clothes, so she had nothing.
Mrs.Li was smart enough to think that it was all right to say so. She didn’t expect that her husband would mention basket and cotton cloth.
Their mistake immediately aroused the suspicion of the officials. They paid much attention to this matter and began to search the Lis.
Mrs.Li was so scared that her legs went limp. Ordinary people, as villagers, had never dealt with government officials. She begged, “We didn’t hurt your parents. Please don’t wrong us. Please.”
Pretending to be indifferent, Huo Wei said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, “If I can’t find out the truth, in the end, I’ll take it as you killed my parents and take revenge on them. I can do whatever Lu Jingyun can do to you. If you don’t believe me, let’s have a try. “
Huo Wei’s voice was cold. She used to be a murderer. Hannah was frightened and her face turned pale!
Mrs.Li looked at the roof of the stove unconsciously and then looked away as if nothing had happened. After a while, she looked over there three times.
Huo Wei walked to the stove and looked around, but saw nothing. As soon as Mrs.Li breathed a sigh of relief, she saw a swallow flying in. It hit its head against the corner of the wall and seemed to pass out. Then it flew away again.
It didn’t matter whether it flew or not. What mattered was that the impact just knocked down a little soil from the corner of the wall, revealing the cloth inside!
Huo Wei immediately called an officer to fetch it. There was indeed an old swaddle, which was covered with dust. The Officer immediately caught Mrs.Li. If there was no secret in her heart, why did she say no baby? And the two of them even told different lies to hide this matter.
The two officers went to the place where Mr.Li said he had found the child, and Mr.Li naturally told a lie. Or after sixteen years, there was no trace, and the two of them got nothing. They just took Mrs.Li back and warned local police that if anyone knew that they didn’t report what had happened in the past, he would be more guilty. But if someone reported it, he could get a reward.
The whole Li village was in an uproar. What was the secret behind picking up a child? They didn’t know at all! Everyone began to recall what they had been doing and whether they had found anything unusual. Huo Wei had said that she would offer ten taels of silver as the reward. If there were really useful clues, the ten taels of silver would belong to the informer.
Ten taels of silver was an acre of good land for a peasant! They might not have saved so much in the past few years. Of course, they were moved. Even the members of the police began to recall what happened in the past in private.
It was not easy to say that there were many people and great strength. They could not only recall but also go to the back mountain to look for any clues.
One of them remembered that when he went to the mountain behind him, he fell down because the soil there was different from the other places. He also scolded that who was free to dig there?
When he remembered, he immediately went to the mountain behind with his family to look for it. In the past sixteen years, many things had changed, such as trees and grass. They had searched for three days but still couldn’t find them. Unexpectedly, it just rained heavily and the ground was flushed. When they searched again after the rain, they found a piece of white bone!
The family was frightened and immediately went to find the police.
Police were taking people to dig out the bones buried in the soil, and everyone was frightened. The jade pendant beside the skeleton was broken into several pieces and was incomplete. Another jade hairpin was broken into two pieces. The rest was gone.
But even if the villagers hadn’t seen anything good, they knew that this jade pendant was definitely the best one. The jade hairpin’s material was a little poor, and it was not something that an ordinary family could have.
Sixteen years ago, someone was digging here, and Huo Wei was also picked up at that time. At the same time, Mr.Li became diligent and began to be a peddler. All didn’t know how he made money. Anyway, he had made a lot. The Li family had built a house and bought a field. If they took the silver from here, wouldn’t it just make sense?
The villagers only felt their hair stand. Was it because Mr.Li killed people for money?
They had been with Mr.Li for so many years, but they didn’t expect him to be a murderer! Fortunately, they were not killed by him!
The local police were also responsible for the accident in the village. He looked terrible, but he didn’t dare to delay and went to the capital to report the case. There were so many people in the village who had seen it. But now, they couldn’t hide the fact that Huo Wei and the police were still investigating the clue.
The government soon sent someone to bring the skeleton back and asked the coroner to examine it. The broken jewelry was also sealed as evidence.
Huo Wei didn’t expect a skeleton to be buried in the mountain behind the Li village. When she heard the news, her face became serious. She would rather her parents abandoned her than be killed by her father. This was too tragic.
She sat in a room in the mansion, waiting for the result. But after a while, the guards at the door seemed to have been ordered to leave quietly. Lou Ye walked into the room and stood in front of Huo Wei.
“Don’t think too much. I’ve told the chief to interrogate her sternly. We’ll know the truth soon.”
Although they weren’t her family, she was in a bad mood. She lowered her head and said, “If there is any grievance, wash it.”
“Sure, I promise.”Lou Ye said in a low but powerful voice. He squatted down slowly, looked into her eyes, and said seriously, “The past will be clear. From now on, I’ll be by your side, and I won’t let you suffer anymore.”
Looking at him for a while, Huo Wei smiled. “I know. I trust you.”
With the progress of the case and Lou Ye’s instructions, the government investigation was fast.
The skeleton had indeed died for sixteen or seventeen years. According to the estimation of her bone age, the woman should be over sixty years old now. That was to say, this woman was nearly fifty years old at that time, and she had never had a child. And Huo Wei was not her child.
The woman broke her leg before she died, and her ribs and backbone had been hit hard. She should have been seriously injured and died of excessive blood loss.
Seeing that the government dug out the bones and found so much information, Mr. Li explained hurriedly. He didn’t kill anyone. He could only bury a corpse and take the woman’s silver and valuable items.
After the interrogation, Mr. Li spoke out everything.
When he went to the back hill to throw the dead baby, it happened to rain that day. The road was slippery. He cursed bad luck while walking. He just wanted to finish his work as soon as possible and go back, but he stumbled while walking!
When he looked up, he saw a woman with her eyes wide open. She screamed in horror and was about to run away. At that time, he saw the lotus bag beside the woman.
At that time, he was so obsessed that he kicked the woman. Seeing that she was dead, he plucked up the lotus bag and found gold and silver in it. Those were not much for the rich, but a windfall for him.
He immediately searched the woman’s body, but unfortunately, except for the broken jade pendant and hairpin, there was nothing else.
Afraid of being discovered, Mr. Li hurried back home to dig a hole with his farm tools and buried her. Then he took the baby crying in the basket next to him back home. He thought that since he had taken the dead money, he could raise the child. It was ominous for the family to have a miscarriage, so he decided to hide it.
For this reason, he especially gave the midwife 2 tales silver as hush money. Later, the midwife died of illness, and no one knew about it except him and his wife. Last time, he couldn’t help but tell the truth because he was scared by the news of jinx. It never occurred to him that what happened sixteen years ago was also involved.
He repeatedly promised that he didn’t kill anyone. When he arrived there, the woman had died and the child had no strength to cry. On the second day, the child was sick. His mother forced his wife to take the child to the temple to pray.
Mrs.Li’s confession was comparable to his. Mrs.Li was very careful and kept the purse. She thought that maybe a rich family would come to find her daughter in the future. So when the Lus came to recognize Lu Jingyun and said that Huo Wei was also raised in the Lus, she agreed without hesitation. She thought what happened in the past was the secret of the Lu family’s backyard, and that it was just an excuse. She didn’t dare to ask more, nor did she mention these conjectures to her father.
According to Mrs.Li’s statement, the officer took out the lotus bag from the corner of Mrs.Li’s quilt. The lotus bag was well made, but it was difficult to tell what the cloth was for a while and it needed some time to investigate who was in touch with it.
The swaddling baby was really very ordinary as if one had casually taken a small quilt from a peasant child outside. It was not tied up, and there was no clue to investigate.
Although she knew the truth, she still couldn’t relax, because Lis wasn’t the murderer. The murderer was someone else. It seemed that it was not as simple as abandon, but someone didn’t want her to live.
Lou Ye grew up at the frontier and didn’t know much about the history of the capital city. He could only send someone to investigate. He wanted to see if there was something wrong with the children of some rich family sixteen years ago.
It was not easy to investigate what had happened so long ago, so she had to put it aside for the time being and wait for the follow-up.
Lu Jingyun had been keeping an eye on Huo Wei, and she was also shocked.
What’s the meaning of this? Is there any secret about her birth? How is that possible?
She had always looked down upon Huo Wei because she was the daughter of a peasant in the Li village. As the eldest daughter of the Lus, she was much noble than Huo Wei.
But now, she suddenly said that Huo Wei had nothing to do with the Lis, and even her mother was very rich. Then who on earth was she? Would she find her family and blend in again? If they met, would they be compared for the rest of their lives, just like what they had been in their previous lives? If Huo Wei married another rich man, would she be pressed by her and never be able to escape from this nightmare?
But Lu Jingyun could do nothing about it. The feeling of losing control came again. She thought she had planned everything step by step after her rebirth. However, now everything was out of the original track, and only the marriage of the Marqui remained the same, but there was a sense of loss that could not be grasped.
Lu Jingyun was a little scared. Was this the same world as her previous life? Was she reborn into another world? Why is everything different?
She was thinking about this, but she didn’t know that others were also thinking about her. Although she was a daughter of the Lu family, she was brought up by her parents. How could her father do that kind of thing in the past? What kind of person could Lu Jingyun, who was raised up by Li’s father, be?
Marquise was especially annoyed. If she had known it earlier, she would not have agreed to change the marriage. What kind of trouble would it be? If she had insisted on her son’s engagement with Huo Wei, the Lu family wouldn’t have dared to remove her from the family tree. They would have treated her as the daughter of the Lu family and maintained their relationship.
It was all Lu Jingyun’s fault. She seduced her son secretly and gave him a handkerchief. She was so shameless that her son insisted on changing the marriage. Now Huo Wei was fine, but Lu Jingyun had almost lost her good reputation. How could she allow Lu Jingyun to marry her?
Marquise thought to herself, otherwise, if she added Lu Jingyun to the list that the Master had given out, she would be able to break off the engagement confidently.
But before she could take action, the government had got the Master’s confession list. There were at least fifty people in it. In the beginning, they were not very famous, but later they were confiscated of several hundred or several thousand taels of silver. The people on the list had also changed from ordinary people to high officials. Most of them were fighting in the backyard, involving the families of several officials, and some of them had already left capital or passed away.
The name list was not made public because it would damage the reputation of the noble families. But the emperor was angry and asked the eunuch master to read the name list in the court, scolding those officials for not being strict with their family and ordering them to deal with it on their own.
Lu Yuan was also reprimanded. His daughter was the only girl on the list who hadn’t get married, and the purpose of bribing the Master was to harm another girl!
The emperor called his name alone and said coldly, “She is so vicious at such a young age. Good for you!”
Lu Yuan was shocked. He immediately knelt on the ground, and explained in a cold sweat, “Your Majesty, as you can see, this little girl was born in the wrong place and has been raised on the farm. I didn’t find her until a few months ago. I really don’t know how she dared to do such a thing. I… “
“Enough! In other words, you don’t even know who is your child. How can you take the job if you can’t even see through a girl raised by a farmer? The guards, except his official uniform, were escorted back to the mansion. From now on, you will be discharged from your position and reflect on yourself. You are not allowed to go out for three months! ” The emperor was really angry, and Lu Yuan’s explanation happened to hit the muzzle.
Many people were curious about why Lu Yuan was taken back to his mansion like this. They all knew that Lu Jingyun had bribed the Master to make up a lie to expel Huo Wei and make her a jinx.
The first thing Lu Yuan did when he came back home was to rush into his room and slap her across the face. “Unfilial daughter! How dare you destroy the basic business of our Lus! “
Lu Jikngyun covered his face and stepped back in a hurry. “Dad, what are you doing? How could I do something bad to the Lu family? “
“How dare you say that? You bastard! How smart do you think you are to deceive your grandmother by bribing that Master to grant your life? She didn’t know that there was no secret wall in the world. If you did it, you would be found out sooner or later. Our Majesty was furious. He took off my position and asked me to stay in the mansion to reflect on myself. Are you satisfied? Are you satisfied? ” Lu Yuan’s eyes were red and he wanted to strangle this evil girl. How could he be so stupid to take her back? He should have known what would happen to a wild child raised outside!
Both Mrs.Feng and Mrs.Chen, who came in a hurry, felt dizzy when they heard what he said. Mrs.Feng grabbed Lu Yuan’s hand and asked incredulously, “Our majesty dismissed you? Really? Really? “
Lu Yuan nodded sadly, “Really! Our family——is dying! “
Mrs.Feng’s eyes went black and his body collapsed.Mrs.Chen immediately asked someone to carry Mrs.Feng to the bed and call for a doctor. After settling down Mrs.Feng, she threw herself on Lu Jingyun and beat her up. She cried, “You bastard! How dare you? How dare you? Don’t you eat less at home and wear less? Why do you have to do this? Shame on you! We Lu family want it! Give back your father’s official position! “
Lu Jingyun had imagined countless times how the truth would be exposed these days. She knew that the official would not make the list public. The so-called punishment was that his family would decide according to the situation. She had prepared the fake pregnancy herb. She planned to marry into the Marquis’ mansion with the help of pregnancy to avoid the disaster. Of course, she could say anything in the future.
But she never expected that the emperor would be angry. It was not the right time for Lu Yuan to defend himself and was dismissed directly. Without this official, the Lu family was no different from the ordinary rich families. Her family was destroyed, and her husband’s family might not want her. And this matter would definitely be known by everyone because of it. What should she do in the future?
For the first time after Lu Jingyun was reborn, she was at a loss. She suddenly regretted it. She shouldn’t have been against Huo Wei. She shouldn’t have been.
But it was too late. She had already cut off all relations with them.
